lechery

Example Sentences

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There are perfectly good reasons someone would buy this software, beyond megalomania, lechery, or even desire for profit.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2018

Hadleigh Adams emphasized wistful wisdom, not lechery, as Nicomedes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2017

He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2016

She has dressed up as the Countess, and what Figaro overhears nearby as Susanna's acquiescence to the Count's lechery is in reality a song for him, a hymn to love's simple joys.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013

In a sermon on the anniversary of the Restoration he had declared from his pulpit that the King's name should "stink while the world stands for treachery, tyranny, and lechery."

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray